Scope of Care Coordination Daunting for Physicians Treating Medicare Patients
February 16, 2009 | News Release
Typical primary care physician must coordinate care with 229 other physicians in 117 practices.
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Seniors Benefit from a Group Approach to Primary Care
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1998, staff at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in Denver expanded and evaluated its Cooperative Health Care Clinic.
Dartmouth Atlas Project Finds Access and Use of Primary Care Does Not Guarantee Better Health Outcomes
September 9, 2010 | News Release
Medicare patients receive care and outcomes of widely varying quality; where you live has a greater influence on the care you receive than the color of your skin
Dartmouth Atlas Project Finds Substantial Variation in Joint Replacement Surgery
April 15, 2010 | News Release
Hip, knee and shoulder replacements are rising significantly for Medicare patients; Rates among regions vary by 10 times for shoulders, four times for hip and knees
Primary Care Physicians' Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients
February 17, 2009 | Journal Article
Policy-makers and insurers are searching for strategies to improve care coordination and reinvigorate primary care as a critical component of reforming the U.S. health care system.
Randomised Trial of Monitoring, Feedback, and Management of Care by Telephone to Improve Treatment of Depression in Primary Care
February 26, 2000 | Journal Article
The effectiveness of two programs to improve the treatment of acute depression in primary care.
Transitions Between Frailty States Among Community-Living Older Persons
February 27, 2006 | Journal Article
The experience of frailty for persons aged 70 or older was examined in the current study. The 754 study participants were part of the Precipitating Events Project that followed older persons over a period of 54 months. Frailty was defined as the pre ...
Implications of New Geriatric Diabetes Care Guidelines for the Assessment of Quality of Care in Older Patients
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The question motivating this research was to assess whether the same goals for controlling type 2 diabetes in the general population should be used in controlling the disease in older patients. If the answer was no, what criteria should be used to a ...
Cystatin C and Prognosis for Cardiovascular and Kidney Outcomes in Elderly Persons Without Chronic Kidney Disease
August 15, 2006 | Journal Article
Chronic kidney disease has been defined in terms of creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR). This study examines an alternative serum measure of kidney function, cystatin C. The researchers' goal was to determine whether elevated ...
Cystatin C and the Risk of Death and Cardiovascular Events Among Elderly Persons
May 16, 2005 | Journal Article
Cystatin C is a protein produced by nearly all human cells and excreted into the bloodstream. As a serum measure of renal function, it appears to be independent of age, sex and lean muscle mass. This study compares the associations of cystatin C, cr ...